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After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory

After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory


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One of the most profound, deeply affecting questions we face as human beings is the matter of our mortality--and its connection to immortality. Ancient animist ghost cultures, Egyptian mummification, late Jewish hopes of resurrection, Christian eternal salvation, Muslim belief in hell and paradise all spring from a remarkably consistent impulse to tether a triumph over death to our conduct in life. In After Lives, British scholar John Casey provides a rich historical and philosophical exploration of the world beyond, from the ancient Egyptians to St. Thomas Aquinas, from Martin Luther to modern Mormons. In a lively, wide-ranging discussion, he examines such topics as predestination, purgatory, Spiritualism, the Rapture, Armageddon and current Muslim apocalyptics, as well as the impact of such influences as the New Testament, St. Augustine, Dante, and the Second Vatican Council. Ideas of heaven and hell, Casey argues, illuminate how we understand the ultimate nature of sin, justice, punishment, and our moral sense itself. The concepts of eternal bliss and eternal punishment express--and test--our ideas of good and evil. For example, the ancient Egyptians saw the afterlife as flowing from ma'at, a sense of being in harmony with life, a concept that includes truth, order, justice, and the fundamental law of the universe. "It is an optimistic view of life," he writes. "It is an ethic that connects wisdom with moral goodness." Perhaps just as revealing, Casey finds, are modern secular interpretations of heaven and hell, as he probes the place of goodness, virtue, and happiness in the age of psychology and scientific investigation. With elegant prose, a magisterial grasp of a vast literary and religious history, and moments of humor and irony, After Lives sheds new light on the question of life, death, and morality in human culture.

Table of Contents:
PART 1: DARK FUTURES ; Prologue: STEPHEN DEDALUS'S HELL ; Chapter One: AFTER LIVES ; Chapter Two: EGYPT ; Chapter Three: MESOPOTAMIA AND ISRAEL ; Chapter Four: GREECE AND ROME ; Chapter Five: THE CHRISTIAN BEGINNINGS ; Chapter Six: DANTE: INFERNO ; Chapter Seven: PREDESTINATION: AUGUSTINE TO CALVIN AND BEYOND ; Chapter Eight: THE DECLINE OF HELL ; Part II: PURGATORY ; Chapter Nine: ROME'S HAPPIEST INSPIRATION? ; HEAVEN ; Chapter Ten: HEAVEN: EGYPT, MESOPOTAMIA, ISRAEL ; Chapter Eleven: BODIES FLESHLY AND SPIRITUAL ; Chapter Twelve: DANTE: PARADISO ; Chapter Thirteen: CELESTIAL PLEASURES: RENAISSANCE AND ; REFORMATION HEAVENS ; Chapter Fourteen: HEAVENLY SPECULATIONS ; Chapter Fifteen: HEAVEN SEEN AND HEARD: SWEDENBORG ; Chapter Sixteen: WITH EASY INTERCOURSE PASS TO AND FRO ; Chapter Seventeen: SCORING IN HEAVEN ; Index

About the Author :
John Casey is a Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge University. He is the author of Pagan Virtue, Morality and Moral Reasoning and The Language of Criticism.

Review :
After Lives is an elegant and informative literary pilgrimage through heaven, hell, and purgatory -- a rare achievement in humane erudition, graced by sympathy, curiosity, and candor. John Casey gives a magisterial overview of the Western eschatological tradition death, judgement, heaven and hell providing sympathetic and lucid summaries of a vast range of different and at times conflicting sources that is a real pleasure to read.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199975037
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 155 mm
  • No of Pages: 480
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 680 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199975035
  • Publisher Date: 07 Mar 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
  • Width: 231 mm


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